Restore Our Potential, the independent team supporting Mitt Romney's presidential bid, elevated $6.6 million previous thirty day period, ending January with $16.three million in the financial institution, in accordance to filings submitted Monday to the Federal Election Commission. The group also put in nearly $14 million in the first month of nominating contests.
In all, the tremendous PAC -- which can take unrestricted donations from folks and companies -- has elevated $36.eight million for the election cycle.
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This month's haul marks an acceleration in the group's fundraising speed, but in contrast to in months past, did not accumulate any million-dollar checks.
GRAPHIC: Super PAC shelling out
Some huge givers from 2011 opened their checkbooks yet again: Julian Robertson, a hedge fund executive from New York, chipped in $250,000 in January to go along with the $one million he gave previous fall. The resort magnates and brothers J.W. and Richard Marriott every gave $250,000 to the team final month, bringing their overall donations to $750,000 apiece.
The team, run by Vancouver Canucks Jerseys three previous Romney aides, also lured Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons, a Dallas-based trader who gave $eight.six million in 2011 to Republican tremendous PACs (like American Crossroads and groups backing Newt Gingrich and former candidate Rick Perry), but absolutely nothing last yr to the pro-Romney effort. Final month, he gave $100,000 to Restore Our Foreseeable future, just three days after Romney's powerful displaying in the New Hampshire main.
A handful of distinguished California business figures also present up in the filings. Amongst them are genuine estate baron John C. Cushman III, of Cushman and Wakefield, who gave $one hundred,000 and Susan Groff, a Northridge-based contractor who gave $225,000 and an New York Islanders Jerseys additional $25,000 from her household rely on. Groff's husband, Howard Groff, had offered the group $100,000 previous April.
And Meg Whitman, a longtime Romney ally who is at present chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, previously the head of eBay and an unsuccessful California gubernatorial candidate, gave $100,000.
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